"Don't leave me!" Jiang Jun murmured with tears in his eyes, "Don't leave me!"
Chen Yuanwu coaxed softly: "I'm here, don't be afraid!"
Jiang Jun burst into tears: "Don't leave me, I'm afraid of being alone, please stay with me, okay? I'll do whatever you want me to do!"
Chen Yuanwu stopped all movements as if he had been electrocuted.
What kind of fear did his beloved girl suffer that made her cry so sadly?
"Don't cry..." Chen Yuanwu gently turned to the side, wrapped Jiang Yun in his arms, and kissed her forehead repeatedly: "I'm here with you, I won't leave!"
Jiang Jun was so emotional that he couldn't speak: "If you don't leave..."
Chen Yuanwu patted Jiang Jun's back and softly repeated "I won't leave". After comforting her for a long time, Jiang Jun's sobbing gradually subsided.
His chest was wet with tears, but he didn't dare to get up to get a towel. He grabbed his vest and wiped Jiang Yun's face, then wiped the sweat from her temples and forehead.
After a long time, Jiang Jun calmed down and fell asleep, probably because he was too tired.
Chen Yuanwu stood up to touch his clothes. Jiang Jun hugged him tightly in fear. He could only hold her hand with one hand and put the clothes on with the other.
Looking at his watch, he could still take a nap. Chen Yuanwu thought for a moment, then gently opened the door and listened to the noise in the living room. In the darkness, Jiang Yonghua's steady breathing was clearly audible.
Lying back in the bed, Jiang Jun automatically moved closer.
Chen Yuanwu smoothed Jiang Yun's hair and closed his eyes to catch up on some sleep.
It is not easy to fall asleep with the fragrance of a beauty in my arms.
Jiang Jun snuggled tightly in Chen Yuanwu's arms, listening to his heartbeat, gently smelling his scent, kissing him whenever she thought of him, and felt extremely satisfied.
He was so good to her, how could she not love him.
She knew he was pretending to be asleep because she could feel his muscles trembling with every kiss she placed on her lips.
Jiang Yun buried her face in Chen Yuanwu's arms, laughing so hard that her whole body was shaking.
Chen Yuanwu helplessly hugged the person in his arms tightly and sighed softly: "I'm scared of you, go to sleep!"
She cried so sadly at the beginning that it almost scared him.
Jiang Jun remembered something, looked up and whispered, "I heard that if a man is ticklish, he will be afraid of his wife!"
"Really?" Chen Yuanwu's fingers moved lightly at the back of Jiang Yun's waist. "Then let me see if you're afraid of me."
Jiang Jun's whole body tensed up, and then he twisted and laughed and pounded, "Don't touch me."
Chen Yuanwu reached out and grabbed Jiang Yun's hips, pulling her close to him, letting her know how hard it was for her to endure. "If you keep making trouble, I really can't stand it anymore! Go to sleep now, it'll be dawn soon, and your dad should be awake by then!"
"My dad..." Jiang Jun finally realized that he was at the Jiang family's house and lowered his voice: "Lao Wu, was I crying too loudly just now?"
"Well, it wasn't too loud. I covered it with a blanket," Chen Yuanwu added, "Your dad was drunk, so he might not have heard it."
"Oh my God!" Jiang Jun really wanted to turn back time.
Chen Yuanwu chuckled: "It's okay, don't be afraid if you hear it, I didn't do anything to you."
Jiang Jun was shy, a rare sight. Luckily, the darkness gave her some courage. "It doesn't matter what happens to me. I'm not afraid!"
Chen Yuanwu sighed softly, "I'm scared!" Then he patted Jiang Yun and said, "Take a nap for ten minutes and then get up. It's almost dawn."
It’s best to get up before Jiang Yonghua wakes up to avoid embarrassing Jiang Yun.
As soon as the sky was getting light, all three people in the Jiang family got up.
Jiang Yonghua went to scoop up some flour: "Xiaojun, I'll make a few more scallion pancakes for you to take home."
Chen Yuanwu rolled up his sleeves to help: "I'm the best at kneading dough!"
Jiang Yonghua dusted the flour off his hands and sent Jiang Jun out to buy breakfast. "It's at the Weimin Restaurant on the west end of the street. Their soy milk is extra thick and not diluted with water. Their pancakes are also delicious. There's always a line there every morning. You'll see it when you get there."
Jiang Yun was happy to let Chen Yuanwu and Jiang Yonghua learn how to make pancakes, and she took the initiative to run errands.
The father-in-law and son-in-law were left in silence for a few seconds. Chen Yuanwu was the first to break the awkwardness: "Uncle Jiang, Xiaojun had a nightmare and cried last night. Did it bother you?"
The topic was brought up straight away. Ping County had only one main street, which was only 200 meters long from beginning to end. Even if one didn't know the number of houses in the area, one could still find them. The conversation had to be quick and decisive.
Jiang Yonghua was stunned for a moment: "Another nightmare? Did you talk in your sleep?"
Chen Yuanwu was stunned: "Uh, so she's afraid of being alone."
How embarrassing! This explanation is a bit far-fetched, as if he is trying to cover up the fact that he is not a gentleman and almost took advantage of someone in distress.
Jiang Yonghua came back to his senses: "When she was in Chuncheng, she had two nightmares. She woke up crying in her dreams, and it scared Xiaolan a lot."
Chen Yuanwu recalled something that happened a long time ago: "Xiaojun always wants people to stay with her. Was she put in solitary confinement when she was very young?"
Locking children in a dark room is also one of the punishment methods used by some parents. The children who are locked up often cry heartbreakingly.
"I don't know if her mother ever locked her up in a dark room when she was little." Jiang Yonghua fell into reminiscence. "The last time I woke up crying from a nightmare, she was out looking for wild delicacies. Somehow she came back alone with a wound on her shoulder. She said she'd been met by a wolf. There were no doctors to be found, and no cars to take her to the city, so she found a local doctor from an ethnic minority. He chewed some herbs and applied them to her wound."
The truth is, the people around Jiang Yonghua at the time, whether locals or ethnic minorities, all said that they had never seen wolves on that mountain. They guessed that Jiang Yun had encountered bad people, so in order to protect Jiang Yun, they found a local doctor to treat Jiang Yun's injuries.
Jiang Yonghua's words were tinged with self-blame: "The wound was very deep. The scar is still there. A little further up, it would have bitten the carotid artery... Alas, Xiaojun had a constant fever at the time and was talking nonsense. She was crying and shouting, asking not to abandon her. I was so scared that I stayed by her side, holding her hand and telling her that Daddy would never abandon her. I had to keep promising her this so that she would stop crying. Later, after the wound healed, she seemed to have forgotten about it. She talked and laughed as if nothing had happened."
Zhao Meilan also took advantage of Jiang Jun's unconsciousness to secretly check on him and quietly told Jiang Yonghua that Jiang Jun was just injured and was not bullied.
But Jiang Yonghua didn't know how to say this to Chen Yuanwu.
Chen Yuanwu was glad that he was right when he said in the middle of the night that he would not leave: "Uncle Jiang, I know what I should do next."
Jiang Yonghua poured the chopped green onions into the wash basin and said, "I always thought Xiaojun was very capable, so I was very confident in letting her do this and that on her own. But after she got sick twice and had two nightmares, I realized that she worked so hard just to have someone by her side. Alas, in fact, she has no idea how to make her parents love her."
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